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Navy Gearing Up For Next Carrier UAV Following Successful Test

Navy Gearing Up For Next Carrier UAV Following Successful Test
The X-47B touches down on an aircraft carrier for the first time in July 2013. Photo: U.S. Navy

As the Navy scored a historic success in the first ever landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle on an aircraft carrier, greater focus is now shifting to the follow-on program that will provide the systems that one day will be operating off the ships. The Navy’s arresting gear landing of the unmanned X-47B on the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) came under a demonstration program to prove out the concept. Soon, the two X-47Bs built by Northrop Grumman [NOC] for…

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